Matt Baker & Aliona Vilani Appreciation Thread (Part 11)

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kittenkong42

05-02-2013

Countryfile on the 13th of January came from Hertfordshire. Matt was looking at rural crime, search & rescue dogs, and playing flyball with his dog Annie. Matt wasn't wearing the most flattering outfit we've seen on Countryfile at the start of the show, but it improved for flyball

rita1

06-02-2013

Morning all

Think we can anticipate a lowish rating for tonight's One Show. It's England v. Brazil at Wembly on t'other side!

stargazer1

06-02-2013

Originally Posted by rita1:
“Morning all
Think we can anticipate a lowish rating for tonight's One Show. It's England v. Brazil at Wembly on t'other side!”

Morning Rita and all other posters and lurkers! Didn't know about the footie (as I'm not a fan) but Bruce W may pull in a few voters for the One Show

Pretty chilly here in the South East and the sky looks grey - anything could happen

Not the weather for a walk I've decided.

Nice CF picspam KK - I agree about the outdoorsy outfit but a few layers came off (which is always good news) once the action transferred to the indoor arena.

Aww, it's his disappointed face when they didn't win the flyball competition....

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By the way, RedNoseDay (Comic Relief) is 15 March (Beware the Ides!) and there'll be much jollity tempered by the actual seriousness of what the Day is for......huge amounts are always raised which is fantastic

Off to daughter's house to await delivery of child car seat, gosh isn't life exciting.....

kittenkong42

06-02-2013

Originally Posted by rita1:
“Morning all
Think we can anticipate a lowish rating for tonight's One Show. It's England v. Brazil at Wembly on t'other side!”

Counterbalanced by a really big name guest in Bruce Willis so it may remain relatively stable (for a Wednesday at about 3.8m or so...). Alex tweeted she was off to see Die Hard 5 this morning in preparation for the show so I guess Matt is as well

Rating for last night was 4.73m according to Attentional - no percentage listed on there yet, but it's probably about 21%.

rita1

06-02-2013

Originally Posted by stargazer1:
“Morning Rita and all other posters and lurkers! Didn't know about the footie (as I'm not a fan) but Bruce W may pull in a few voters for the One Show

Pretty chilly here in the South East and the sky looks grey - anything could happen Not the weather for a walk I've decided.

Nice CF picspam KK - I agree about the outdoorsy outfit but a few layers came off (which is always good news) once the action transferred to the indoor arena.

Aww, it's his disappointed face when they didn't win the flyball competition....

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...05at215640.png

By the way, RedNoseDay (Comic Relief) is 15 March (Beware the Ides!) and there'll be much jollity tempered by the actual seriousness of what the Day is for......huge amounts are always raised which is fantastic

Off to daughter's house to await delivery of child car seat, gosh isn't life exciting.....”

Thank you SG. Plenty of time for Matt to practise his space hopping then

rita1

06-02-2013

Right, I've had enough of the winter gear now. When is Spring due, bringing with it the hope of a henley or t-shirt or two? He's even contrived to look all wrapped up indoors here! I did very much enjoy the show though, especially the dog races. Quite like these:

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And just for the lovely dog
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Thanks kk.

kittenkong42

06-02-2013

Onto The One Show on 14th of January with guest Brian Cox (the actor, not the professor

kittenkong42

06-02-2013

Here's a picture of the Matt & Alex poster from tonight's show - "Try Hard". And they definitely did have to try hard with Bruce - he didn't fit well with the show. Luckily Adam Hills was much more entertaining

http://twitpic.com/c1fhw3

And as I said on twitter the BBC aren't very good with their photoshopping so Matt's biceps in the picture would seem to be all his own work. Which is very impressive given they're huge! )

SkyBluePink

06-02-2013

Evening.

Love matt and alex's 'try hard' poster,

matt looks, wow, now that's a look that would be good to see on cf

What to say about bruce,

he was very laid back almost asleep,needed lots of prodding to talk, but when he was he was ok, a very stange interview, good job he was there for only half hour. You would have thought he been used to being interiewed given that he is a big U.S film star and done the rounds on U.S chat show.

The rest of the show was fine, adam and zoe were good guests.

Matt looked great, nice and stubbly was in good bouncy mood.

Lotuseater

06-02-2013

Boo to BW::yawn::yawn:. MB does rock a vest and yes he should Try Harder

The next 2 guests so much more "in tune" - only saw 10 mins as OH turned over for the footie

EMMAJC

06-02-2013

Hello – I liked the show tonight, I enjoyed it. Bruce appeared to be a laidback character. I am hugely impressed with Matt and Alex. They managed incredibly well using Bruce’s availability, made him looking less awkward in the studio and led him to fit into the show format and to cooperate with them. I suspected that ‘Try Hard’ is Mr Baker’s pun

and I really want to know whether his guns are that massive if he folds his arms. I know he has gorgeous arms and broad shoulders

but I just wonder was it a bit of optical illusion.

I liked the shaolin monks demonstrating Chinese martial arts. Matt seemed enjoyed it. He probably would like to have a go if he was given a chance to learn a few moves.

kittenkong42

06-02-2013

Couldn't resist this

A 1940s-esque pipe smoking Matt - http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...5ee1916fb2.jpg

EMMAJC

06-02-2013

Originally Posted by kittenkong42:
“Couldn't resist this

A 1940s-esque pipe smoking Matt - http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...5ee1916fb2.jpg”

kittenkong42

07-02-2013

So, even though it clashed with the football The One Show pulled in 4.22m viewers last night . That's up 0.38m on last week's figures

rita1

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by kittenkong42:
“Couldn't resist this

A 1940s-esque pipe smoking Matt - http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...5ee1916fb2.jpg”

As Emma says -

rita1

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by kittenkong42:
“So, even though it clashed with the football The One Show pulled in 4.22m viewers last night . That's up 0.38m on last week's figures ”

Not bad. The Wednesday hour-long show is certainly doing a lot better than it's Friday counterpart did - even without such a scintillating guest as Bruce Willis

stargazer1

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by rita1:
“Not bad. The Wednesday hour-long show is certainly doing a lot better than it's Friday counterpart did - even without such a scintillating guest as Bruce Willis”

Afternoon! Was trying to get on here this morning but was becoming late (as usual) for Keep Fit. Timekeeping is not my strong point.....as we say in our family, I shall be late for my own funeral

OK, so yesterday's interview with BW was not fabulous (I thought Matt and Alex were marvellous, keeping the chat going) but I sort of expected that BW would be laid back and laconic....but he was definitely lacking pizzazz........more like zzzzzz:sleep: !! Perhaps it was the combination of jetlag, too many whiskies on the plane and being plonked on an early evening show with little idea of what sort of interview it would be. At least he kept the conversation clean - maybe he was afraid of letting a swear creep in (a la Die Hard) and therefore just mumbled through it

However, it seems that the viewers wanted to see Bruce hence the excellent viewing figures

Loved the Try Hard poster although, as others have noted, some of Matt's face hadn't been photoshopped properly so it looked a bit of a funny shape and didn't show his tremendous profile. I'm sure others in our midst would have made a better job! Still the biceps were well displayed and that made our day (sorry, wrong film

)

That pipe-smoking pic you've created KK is wonderful, I love that 40s look. I have some knitting patterns books from that era and they evoke the war-time spirit and events.

And this is him sans pipe...

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...06at073010.png

So back to 2013 (unfortunately

) and the last important OS of the week. Hoping for a weskit......

rita1

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by stargazer1:
“Afternoon! Was trying to get on here this morning but was becoming late (as usual) for Keep Fit. Timekeeping is not my strong point.....as we say in our family, I shall be late for my own funeral

OK, so yesterday's interview with BW was not fabulous (I thought Matt and Alex were marvellous, keeping the chat going) but I sort of expected that BW would be laid back and laconic....but he was definitely lacking pizzazz........more like zzzzzz:sleep: !! Perhaps it was the combination of jetlag, too many whiskies on the plane and being plonked on an early evening show with little idea of what sort of interview it would be. At least he kept the conversation clean - maybe he was afraid of letting a swear creep in (a la Die Hard) and therefore just mumbled through it However, it seems that the viewers wanted to see Bruce hence the excellent viewing figures

Loved the Try Hard poster although, as others have noted, some of Matt's face hadn't been photoshopped properly so it looked a bit of a funny shape and didn't show his tremendous profile. I'm sure others in our midst would have made a better job! Still the biceps were well displayed and that made our day (sorry, wrong film )

That pipe-smoking pic you've created KK is wonderful, I love that 40s look. I have some knitting patterns books from that era and they evoke the war-time spirit and events.

And this is him sans pipe...

http://i1098.photobucket.com/albums/...06at073010.png

So back to 2013 (unfortunately ) and the last important OS of the week. Hoping for a weskit......”

On another DS thread I read the following quote from Kevin Smith, who directed Bruce Willis in Cop Out. "...the most passionless actor I've ever worked with. Bruce Willis was a nightmare on set and just didn't seem to give a sh*t about anything other than not giving a sh*t". I watched part of an appearance of his on the Jonathan Ross show, also linked on the other DS thread, where I learned a lot about Jonathan Ross but nothing about Bruce Willis - but then that's not unusual with the former. But I also think it was just the wrong show at the wrong time for him. Given the limitations of One Show interviews I don't think he did that badly. I suspect his main problem was just naturally being California laid-back. The One Show doesn't have time for California laid-back.

kittenkong42

07-02-2013

Alex has posted the original version of the "Try Hard" picture, with a comment about it involving lots of fake blood and coffee for the stains

https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets-auto...f175b95bdb24a4

We can safely say that no CGI or photoshop was required to make Matt's arms look like that now

rita1

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by kittenkong42:
“Alex has posted the original version of the "Try Hard" picture, with a comment about it involving lots of fake blood and coffee for the stains

https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets-auto...f175b95bdb24a4

We can safely say that no CGI or photoshop was required to make Matt's arms look like that now ”

Indeed not

SkyBluePink

07-02-2013

Evening

the orginal photo of 'try hard' poster is super, shows matt arms of a treat, can't help wondering who put on the coffe and blood stains on, matt or a queue of make up ladies that kept on saying it's not right on the arms we'll have to do it again

Yay back to normal tonight, a guest that could talk, maureen was lovely. Some good laughing from matt. Bet they were both happier tonight
Matt looked great in the his red jumped and jeans

EMMAJC

07-02-2013

Hello – I saw Matt in red jumper, looking lovely, heard him doing voiceover so was Alex in a VT, apart from that I missed most of the OS tonight. Have been busy so I saved it for the Mattless Friday.

Thanks KK. Alex has been doing great job, hasn’t she. What can I say? Have to second Bruce Willis. That’s awesome! The FBB’s guns in particular . I have seen him in a vast on SCD training. His gorgeous arms showed elegance and gracefulness as he hit the beautiful lines but never seen him folding his arms in a sleeveless vast showing off his guns.

I do wonder again what he would do/wear while wrestling on CF this Sunday. Intriguing!

SkyBluePink

07-02-2013

Originally Posted by kittenkong42:
“Countryfile on the 13th of January came from Hertfordshire. Matt was looking at rural crime, search & rescue dogs, and playing flyball with his dog Annie. Matt wasn't wearing the most flattering outfit we've seen on Countryfile at the start of the show, but it improved for flyball

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He was very layered up to start with, but it was just hiding some very nice jeans with some very good views later on.

Lucky spanniel getting picked up and getting lots of cuddles.
Lovely pics kk

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kittenkong42

07-02-2013

It's The One Show on the 15th of January with guest Sir Trevor McDonald

Matt is wearing a grey textured shirt, tan trousers, and was clearly cold as he had a vest on

Lotuseater

07-02-2013

Well what can one say. He does rock a vest and the biceps (with or without fake blood and coffee stains) have a certain appeal:

A Thud factor off the Richter Scale,

As for BW - we all have our own opinions but I thought him just plain awful but as his appearance instigated THE VEST - I can forgive him anything

Good rating though KK

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